KRISTIN J. JACOBSON Stockton University Arts and Humanities, K-150 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205 Office Phone: (609) 626-5581 Kristin.Jacobson@stockton.edu Website: https://blogs.stockton.edu/kristinjjacobson/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Stockton University, Galloway, NJ Assistant Professor, 2005-2010 Coordinator, Women s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2010-2011; 2012-2013 Coordinator, Literature Program, September 2012-August 2014 September 2010 to present EDUCATION Ph.D.-English, Certificate in Women s Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (2004) M.A.-English, University of CO-Boulder, Boulder, CO (1998) B.A.-English, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, summa cum laude, English and All College Honors (1995) BOOK PUBLICATION Neodomestic American Fiction. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010. REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Renovating The American Woman s Home: American Domesticity in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Legacy. 25.1 (2008): 105-127. The Neodomestic American Novel: The Politics of Home in Barbara Kingsolver s The Poisonwood Bible. Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature. 24.1 (Spring 2005): 105-127. Reprint. Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010: 216-245. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 346 (CLC-346). Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2014. Desiring Natures: The American Adrenaline Narrative. Genre. 35.2 (Summer 2002): 355-82. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 248 (CLC-248). Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, March 2008. ESSAYS IN BOOK COLLECTIONS Profitable Sentiments: HBO s The Wire and Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin. The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television. Eds. Jennifer A. Williamson and Jennifer Larson. McFarland Publishers, 2014: 151-174. Imagined Geographies. Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Priscilla V. Leder. University of Tennessee Press, 2010: 175-198. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 342. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2013. This is Not a Chick Book! Anxious Male Domesticity and Gender Troubled Corrections. Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed. Elwood Watson. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2009: 216-241. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Review of Joni Adamson and Kimberly N. Ruffin, eds. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons (New York: Routledge, 2013). American Literary History Online Review. Series I. 2015: http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/alhist/alhreview.html Making America Heymish: The Search for Home. Portraits of Resilience: Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey. Second Edition. Maryann McLoughlin, Ed. Co-published with Stockton s Holocaust Resource Center. Margate, NJ: ComteQ Publishers, 2008.
Kristin J. Jacobson 2 WORK IN PROGRESS The American Adrenaline Narrative. Book-length project that identifies a distinct genre of travel and environmental literature. American Women Writers and Liminality. Proposed edited collection. Co-editor with Miranda A. Green-Barteet. CFP: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63048 AWARDS AND HONORS INSTITUTE FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT FELLOW, STOCKTON UNIVERSITY (2014-2016) PRESENTATIONS: Trigger Warning! A New Best Practice? (faculty presentation); Presentation on trigger warnings to Provost Council; Disseminating Your Research: Tips on Publishing Journal Articles (with Ellen Mutari); Disseminating Your Research: Tips on Publishing Books (with Ellen Mutari). SABBATICAL: Competitive Award, AY 2011-2012. NEH SUMMER SEMINAR PARTICIPANT: Rethinking the Land Ethic: Sustainability and the Humanities. Flagstaff, AZ, June 20-July 15, 2011. NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD, Best unpublished manuscript, 2009. SUMMER SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE, Faculty Resource Network, New York University, June 2009 & June 2012. STOCKTON SUMMER RESEARCH FUNDS, 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2012. INVITED TALKS The Online Academic Presence Social Media and Professional Websites. Co-presenter with Donna Campbell. Small group discussion at mentoring breakfast. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. November 2014. Desiring Natures: Gender, Adventure and the Environment. Keynote address. 15 th Annual Research Conference on Gender. SUNY Fredonia. 12 March 2013. Academic Networking through Social Media. Small group discussion at mentoring breakfast. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. October 2012. Tackling Tenure. Presentation for English Graduate Students. The Pennsylvania State University, March 2011. Finding Home in Far Away. Post-Performance Discussion on Caryl Churchill s Fay Away. Stockton Experimental Theatre, Oct. 10, 2008. Food for Thought: Jewish Women, Literature, and Culture. From Europe to New Jersey: A Sampling of Recipes from Holocaust Survivors A Taste of New Jersey, Cultures and Culinary Traditions. New Jersey Council for the Humanities Workshop. Organized by the Atlantic Cape Community College Academy of Culinary Arts and the Stockton s Holocaust Resource Center. ACCC, Oct. 6, 2008. Six-Part Lecture Series on American Culture. Medford Leas Retirement Community. Medford, NJ. Fall 2007. African American Jazz Forms and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Post-Performance Discussion on Lynn Nottage s Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Stockton Experimental Theatre, Oct. 5, 2006.
Kristin J. Jacobson 3 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Trigger Happy? Best Practices for Trigger Warnings. Women in Academia Conference. Stockton University, January 2016. American Women Writers on the Edge: Contemporary Adrenaline Narratives Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 2015. Creative Collaborations: Strategies for Moving from Precarity to Opportunity. National Women s Studies Association Program Administrators and Directors Pre-conference. Milwaukee, WI, November 2015. Scholarship of Engagement: County Status Report on Women. Stewardship of Place-Case Study Atlantic County, NJ. American Democracy Project National Meeting. New Orleans, LA, June 2015. Locating Your Center. National Women s Studies Association Program Administrators and Directors Pre-conference. San Juan, PR, November 2014. Radical Homemaking in Contemporary Environmental Fiction. American Studies Association. Los Angeles, CA, November 2014. Activist in Residence: Community Voices on Campus. American Democracy Project National Meeting. Louisville, KY. June 2014. Leave Your Skirt at Home: Masculinity and Survival. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Chicago, IL, April 2014. Workshop in Activist Curricula: Building Local< >Global Feminist Networks. National Women s Studies Association Program Administrators and Directors Pre-conference. Cincinnati, OH, November 2013. Getting Out the Vote: Strategies for Campus Civic and Political Engagement. American Democracy Project National Meeting. June 2013. American Adrenaline Narrative: Adventurous Natures, Risky Religions. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Lawrence, KA, June 2013. The New and Improved Research Assistant: Zotero and Student-Faculty Research. Student-Faculty Collaboration 2.0: Exploring Feminist Alternatives to Independent Projects with Students. National Women s Studies Association. Oakland, CA, November 2012. Risky Women Writers: The Gender Politics of Extreme Adventure. American Women s Place: Geographies of Belonging and Alienation. Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Denver, CO, October 2012. Spiritual Natures and the American Adrenaline Narrative. Nature and the Popular Imagination. International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. Malibu, CA, August 2012. The American Adrenaline Narrative: Pushing the Limits of Environmental Writing. ASLE Panel. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA, May 2012. The American Adrenaline Narrative: Extreme Nature Writing. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Albuquerque, NM, February 2012. Gendered Natures: Masculinity and Extreme Adventure. Dismantling Feminist Masculinities. National Women s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, November 2011. Navigating Intersectional Film Pedagogies in The Classroom: A Workshop and Clearinghouse. Roundtable panelist. National Women s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, November 2011.
Kristin J. Jacobson 4 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS CONTINUED Record This! Creating an Original Digital Feminist Archive with Podcasts. Panel/Roundtable organizer and presenter: Technologies of Feminist Pedagogies in Hard Times: Using Free (Or Nearly So) Technologies in the Feminist Classroom. MidAtlantic Women s Studies Association. Ewing, NJ. April 2011. Remodeling the Race House: Domestic Topographies in Contemporary American Novels. MELUS Panel: The Topography of Ethnicity: History, Culture, and Mobility. Modern Language Association. Los Angeles, CA, January 2011. Building Student Partnerships and Engagement though ecitizenship. With Stockton student Lauren Rohrer. 2010 ecitizenship Institute. Detroit, MI, November 2010. Podcasts and Creating an Original Feminist On-line Archive. Panel organizer and presenter: Technologies of Feminist Pedagogy: Digital Scholarship with Ning, Podcasts, YouTube and Zotero. National Women's Studies Association. Denver, CO, November 2010. Integrating Political Activism and Service Learning into Women s Studies Courses. American Democracy Project National Meeting. Providence, RI, June 2010. Living Green: Environmentalism and Contemporary American Domestic Fiction. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA, May 2010. The Politics of Home and the Neodomestic American Novel. 20 th Century American Literature Panel: Literature and the Politics of Space. Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA, Dec 2009. Desperate Marriages in Contemporary Domestic Fiction. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Philadelphia, PA, October 2009. Innovative Pedagogies, Inventive Technologies: Teaching American Literature Roundtable. Moderator and Presenter. American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2009. The Technology of Feminism: Using Blogs and Podcasts to Enhance Feminist Pedagogy. Mid-Atlantic Women s Studies Conference. Rutgers University: New Brunswick, NJ, March 2009. American Trash, American Identity: Domestic Recyclers in Contemporary Women s Fiction. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA, May 2008. Remapping Foundational Geographies: Leslie Marmon Silko s Gardens in the Dunes. NEMLA. Buffalo, NY, April 2008. (E)Racing Embattled Whiteness in Chang-rae Lee s Aloft. American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 2007. Barbara Kingsolver s Imagined Geographies. Twentieth Century Literature and Culture Conference. Louisville, KY, February 2007. Women s Popular Domestic Cultures at the Extremes: The Rhetoric of Home in The American Woman s Home and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Philadelphia, PA, November 2006. Domestic Geographies: Beyond the Separate Spheres of American Domestic Fiction. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA, May 2006. Anxious Male Domesticity: Gender Troubled Corrections. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., December 2005. Renovating The American Woman's Home: The Discourses of Technology and Home in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association. New Brunswick, NJ, November 2005.
Kristin J. Jacobson 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE LITT 4610: Senior Seminar LITT 3316: Contemporary American Women Writers LITT 3315: American Postmodern Fiction LITT 3217: Special Topics in American Literature Contemporary Domestic Fiction LITT 3125: Literary Theory and Criticism LITT 2145: Family in American Literature LITT 2123: Introduction to Literary Research LITT 2109: Contemporary American Fiction LITT 2105: American Literature II 1865- Present LITT 2114: Literary Interpretation LITT 2001: Literature Engagement Seminar STOCKTON UNIVERSITY GALLOWAY, NJ LITT 1101: Literary Methodologies GIS 3614: Seminar in Feminist Theory GAH 2358: Perspectives on Women GAH 2256: American Popular Culture and Folklife GAH 2309: Preserving a Sense of the Past (Honors Seminar) GAH 1056: First-Year Seminar: Popular Culture and Folklife GAH 1051: First-Year Seminar: The Body Across Disciplines GAH 1039: First-Year Seminar: Perspectives on Women AMST 5001: Research Methods in American Studies AMST 5007: Contemporary America PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT (FEBRUARY 2010-FEBRUARY 2016) PAPER AND PANEL REVIEWER FOR 2012 AND 2015 CONFERENCES US STUDIES ONLINE/SSAWW BLOG SERIES, EDITOR NATIONAL WOMEN S STUDIES ASSOCIATION PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE: ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER (2012-PRESENT) MENTOR TO GRADUATE STUDENT: 2014-PRESENT PAD PRE-CONFERENCE PAPER AND PANEL REVIEWER FOR 2013 CONFERENCE ATLANTIC COUNTY ADVISORY COMMISSION ON WOMEN: MEMBER (2013-TO PRESENT) ADP/TDC/NASPA CONFERENCE, Panel reviewer for 2015 conference JOURNAL ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER: Modern Language Studies, 2012; Genre, 2011; Women s Studies, 2011; Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature, 2003; 2009; Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2005 TEXTBOOK REVIEWER: Kaleidoscope of Gender: Patterns and Possibilities (Sage Publications), 2011; A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (Oxford University Press), 2008; The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms (Bedford/St. Martin s), 2006 BOOK MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER: Rutgers University Press, 2012-2013 BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWER: Continuum Books, 2011 SELECTED STOCKTON UNIVERSITY PROGRAM SERVICE LITERATURE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT: (2013-2016) LITERATURE PROGRAM SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEBSITE: 2015-2016, WITH DEB GUSSMAN LITERATURE PROGRAM SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., 2007-2008 LITERATURE PROGRAM FIVE YEAR REVIEW: author, 2006-2007
Kristin J. Jacobson 6 SELECTED UNIVERSITY & SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES SERVICE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY PROJECT/POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT PROJECT (SPRING 2010-TO PRESENT): FACULTY CO-CHAIR (SPRING 2015); ACTIVIST-IN-RESIDENCE FACULTY LIAISON (FALL 2013-FALL 2015); ECITIZENSHIP (SPRING 2010-SPRING 2011; FALL 2012-SPRING 2014); CONSTITUTION DAY COMMITTEE (2015) NEW FACULTY MENTOR (2007-2011; 2014-TO PRESENT) FACULTY MENTOR ARHU (PILOT, INSTITUTE FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT): 2014-2015 ACADEMIC HONESTY AND APPEAL BOARD: 2015-2016. BOARD OF TRUSTEES STUDENT AFFAIRS STANDING COMMITTEE (2012-2014; 2014-2016) CAMPUS HEARING BOARD, (2014-2016) MASTERS IN AMERICAN STUDIES: ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE (FALL 2015-TO PRESENT) MASTERS IN AMERICAN STUDIES: CURRICULUM COMMITTEE (FALL 2012-2015), CHAIR (SPRING 2015) MIDDLE STATES PERIODIC REVIEW REPORT COMMITTEE (2015-2016). ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES STEERING COMMITTEE (2015-2016) ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES PILOT: COURSE PARTICIPANT FALL 2014 FACULTY SENATE TASK FORCE WOMEN S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY CENTER, CO-CHAIR, (2014) ARHU DEAN SEARCH COMMITTEE: MEMBER (2013-2014) SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES, PROGRAM ASSESSMENT INTERVIEWS (SPRING 2014) CHAIR, ACADEMIC PROGRAMS INITIATIVE ENGAGEMENT (2013) WOMEN S, GENDER & SEXUALITY CENTER AD-HOC COMMITTEE: CHAIR (2013) FACULTY SENATOR (2009-2011) MIDDLE STATES SELF-STUDY TEAM (STANDARD 10: THE FACULTY) (2010-11) MASTERS IN AMERICAN STUDIES STEERING BOARD (2008-2011); CHAIR (2009-2011) ADVISORY BOARD FOR PUBLICATION ON THE HISTORY OF STOCKTON (2009-2011) FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE FOR THE PAUL LYONS LECTURE SERIES (2009-2010) WOMEN S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES CURRICULUM COMMITTEE CHAIR (2006-2010) IT STRATEGIC PLAN TASK FORCE (2009-2010) ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA COMMITTEE (2008-2010) CAMPUS HEARING BOARD (2006-2008; 2012-2014) EDUCATION LIAISON COMMITTEE (2007-2008) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STEWARDSHIP OF PUBLIC LANDS: American Association of State Colleges and Universities, American Democracy Project. Yellowstone National Park, July 27-31, 2015. WYE FACULTY SEMINAR PARTICIPANT: Aspen Institute, Citizenship in the American Global Polity. Queenstown, Maryland, July 16-22, 2011. FACULTY RESOURCE NETWORK SEMINAR PARTICIPANT: Women s Studies in a Global World, New York University, June 2008.